Person:Frederick Hambright (1)

Starting these pages after finding detailed migration information from ProGenealogists.com was only available in the Wayback Machine. Am attempting to reproduce it here so it won't be lost. Hopefully this isn't duplicative - although I wasn't able to find this info elsewhere on WeRelate.

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In 1709, Protestant Germans from the Pfalz or Palatine region of Germany escaped conditions of poverty, traveling first to Rotterdam and then to London. Anne, Queen of Great Britain, helped them get to her colonies in America. The trip was long and difficult to survive because of the poor quality of food and water aboard ships and the infectious disease typhus. Many immigrants, particularly children, died before reaching America in June 1710.

The Palatine immigration of about 2100 people who survived was the largest single immigration to America in the colonial period. Most were first settled along the Hudson River in work camps, to pay off their passage. By 1711, seven villages had been established in New York on the Robert Livingston manor. In 1723 Germans became the first Europeans allowed to buy land in the Mohawk Valley west of Little Falls. One hundred homesteads were allocated in the Burnetsfield Patent. By 1750, the Germans occupied a strip some 12 miles (19 km) long along both sides of the Mohawk River. The soil was excellent; some 500 houses were built, mostly of stone, and the region prospered in spite of Indian raids. Herkimer was the best-known of the German settlements in a region long known as the "German Flats" Template:1776

Biography

Template:DAR-grs "Hans Conrad Hamprecht (b 1688) of Neunstetten, Buchen-Baden, Germany, who was the son of Hans Wilhelm Hamprecht (1657-1727) and Anna Barbara Streaner (1659-1753), who was son of Hans Wilhelm and Margaretha Hamprecht of Neunstetten, Buchen-Baden, Germany, son of Peter (ca 1587) and Eva (ca 1591) Hamprecht. The Hambrights’ traveled westward and settled in Lancaster County, PA." Frederick was married twice, once to Sarah Hardin (daughter of Benjamin ll and Sarah Elizabeth Hardin of Virginia ) they had twelve children only six lived. Frederick's second wife was Mary Dover married 1781, they had ten children of whom eight lived to adulthood. "An early advocate of American independence, there are numerous references to Col. Frederick Hambright’s civil and patriotic services on the pages of county and North Carolina State histories, and in official records. A signer of the Tryon Resolves in 1775, he was appointed as one of the representatives for Tryon County at the Third Provincial Congress held at Hillsborough, Aug. 1775. He served as a captain in the 1776 campaign against the Cherokee Indians and was made Lt. Colonel in 1779. He entered the Revolutionary War in 1777 serving in several campaigns prior to distinguishing himself on October 7, 1780 as the Commander of the Lincoln County Militia at the Battle of Kings Mountain. Near the close of the battle, the 53 years old Hambright had already received three bullets through his hat, and was shot through his thigh, cutting some arteries. While his boot filled with blood, he was urged to quit the fight, but preferring to remain in his saddle, he magnanimously encouraged his men to continue the fight, calling out in his German accent, “Huzza, my prave poys, fight on a few minutes more, and the battle will be over!” It is said that Maj. William Ferguson, the British Commander, was so near that he responded with, 'Huzza, brave boys, the day is our own.' These were to be among his last words before being shot to death.
After the battle was won, Frederick was taken to his previously built log cabin nearby . As he recuperated from his severe battle wound, he was nursed by a young neighbor, Mary Dover. The following year, Frederick and Mary Dover (b Jan. 9, 1762 - d May 5, 1835/36) daughter of John Dover, were married July 17, 1781 in York County, SC, at the home of his friend, Arthur Patterson, Sr.
Later a two-story weather boarded log house was built near the site of the log cabin and the historic battleground. This is where he lived and spent the remainder of his life until his death on March 9, 1817 at the age of 90. Frederick and Mary are buried at the Shiloh Presbyterian Church Cemetery, where he was an Elder, located in Cleveland County, one mile east of Grover, NC.
They parented ten children, eight living to maturity: Henry m. widow Anna Stewart; Mary “ Polly“, m. Reese Price; Sophia, m. William Quinn; David, m. Sarah Jane Graham; Josiah, m. Elizabeth Moss; Charlotte “Lotsie”, m. Alex Norton; Susannah, m. William Dickson; Abner, single.
In February 1781, the North Carolina General Assembly resolved, “ �� that an elegant mounted sword” be presented to each of the senior officers who had been at Kings Mountain. By inadvertence, Hambright did not receive his sword. The sword which is displayed at the Kings Mountain National Park Museum is Col. Hambright’s personal sword that he used throughout his military career. In more recent years, the N.C. General Assembly voted to present a replica of the Overmountain Men pistol to the descendants of Col. Frederick Hambright. The presentation was made at the battleground on October 7, 1980, the 200th Anniversary of the Battle, and has been donated to the Cleveland County Museum in Shelby, NC." Frederick Hambright gravesite in Grover, North Carolina. Restoration and intenance of Col. Hambright's grave and the cemetery where it is located spearheaded by Mr. Ralph Fain Hambright. February 21, 1937-November 10,

Sources

• Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, Volume 55
• The State Records of North Carolina: Miscellaneous edited by Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks Page 429

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• References from Wikiwand
• John Buchanan (1997). The Road To Guilford Court House: The American Revolution in the Carolinas (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997).
• Connor, Robert Digges Wimberly (1913). A Manual of North Carolina. North Carolina Historical Commission.
• Dameron, J. David (2003). Kings Mountain: The Defeat of the Loyalists, October 7, 1780. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-81194-4.
• Hunter, C.L (1877). Sketches of Western North Carolina. North Carolina (Raleigh, N.C.: 'The Raleigh News Steam Job Print).

• [ http://www.colfrederickhambright.org/page2.html ]
• The Col. Frederick Hambright Family, by Bonny Mauney Summers; Kings Mountain and Its Heroes, by Lyman Draper; Colonial & State Records of N.C.
• [ http://services.dar.org/public/dar_research/search_adb/default.cfm ]

• [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryon_Resolves ]

• [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kings_Mountain ]
• [ http://www.classcreator.com/Kings-Mountain-NC-1919-1982/class_index.cfm]

• [ https://www.nps.gov/kimo/index.htm ]

• [ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5R-XV1 ]

• [ https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH2Y-243 ]

Frederick's ancestors, information should be checked for recent changes or updates

• 1 Hans Wilhelm Hambrecht 1622 -

.. +Margaretha ........ 2 Hans Wilhelm Hamprecht 1656/57 - 1726/27 ............ +Anna Barbara Streaner 1659 - 1753 ................... 3 Hans Conrad Hambrecht 1688 - 1738 ....................... +Anna Margareta 1693 - ............................. 4 *Eva Catharina Hambrecht 1710 - 1786 ................................. +*John Stephen Trinkle 1718 - 1786 ........................................ 5 Michael Trenkle ........................................ 5 Anna Catherina Trinkle 1748/49 -........................................ 5 Anna Maria Agnessia Trinkle 1750/51 -........................................ 5 *Christopher Trinkle 1751 - 1829............................................ +*Elizabeth Wysor 1757 - 1812 ........................................ 5 Agnes Trinkle 1755 - ........................................ 5 Susanna Trinkle 1765 - 1799 ............................................ +Nicholas Bierly Madera ............................. 4 Veit Hambrecht ............................. 4 Johan Adam Hambrecht 1711 - ................................. +Elizabeth Barbara Heyl ............................. 4 Johannes Hambrecht 1717 - 1782 ................................. +Susanna ........................................ 5 Margaret Hambright 1740 - 1768............................................ +John Musser, Jr. 1738 - 1802 ........................................ 5 John Hambright 1741 - ............................................ +Polly Martin ............................. 4 Henrich Hambrecht 1727 - ............................. 4 Frederick Hambright 1727 - 1817 ................................. +Sarah Hardin 1733 - ............................. *2nd Wife of Frederick Hambright: ................................. +Mary Dover 1762 - 1835

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